London — Week of 11 May 2026

Gartner's flagship EMEA data and analytics summit returns to ExCeL London May 11-13. The premier gathering of CDOs, CDAOs, data architects and AI leaders from across Europe — Gartner analyst-led sessions, enterprise case studies, and the strongest room in EMEA for board-level data strategy. One of the must-attend events of the month for senior data leaders.

DevOpsCon London runs May 11-15 at Park Plaza Victoria with ~266 speakers across CI/CD, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering and DevSecOps. Five days of technical sessions, full-day workshops and two-day bootcamps — a strong week for infrastructure engineers, platform teams and SRE leads shipping production systems.

iJS London — May 11-15 at Park Plaza Victoria — the international JavaScript conference for engineers and technical leads. Tracks on Angular, React/Next.js, Node.js, testing and security, DevOps and CI/CD, web architecture, and generative AI in JavaScript. Expo runs May 12-13.

MLcon London 2026 — May 11-15 at Park Plaza Victoria — the event for Generative AI and Machine Learning Engineering. Tracks cover Generative AI & Agents, MLOps/LLMOps, ML & Deep Learning, AI Developer Tools, AI Strategy & Governance. Expo May 12-13, plus a dedicated AI Agent Bootcamp May 14-15 for engineers building production-grade AI systems.

Newspeak House's Prototype Club — a recurring evening for people building civic-tech, hardware and weird software in public, hosted by Fatima Sarah Khalid. Bring something half-built and get pushed.

Evening healthtech networking at The Refinery Bankside for founders, engineers and investors working across digital health, medtech and health AI. Consistent recurring format in the Southwark tech cluster.

Crypto Finance Forum London 2026 — flagship gathering of crypto-native investors, allocators and protocol founders, timed for London VC Week. Half-day, central London, capped attendance.

Silicon Roundabout — the UK's biggest deeptech community — runs its structured bi-weekly online intro round. Each attendee gets 1-2 minutes to say what they're building and what they need; a fast, low-overhead way to surface relevant people in UK deeptech and startups.

The Founder Mixer is the official founder-side networking event of London VC Week — the room every visiting founder is trying to get into. Casual format, high-signal turnout.

identity.vc hosts an LGBTQ+ founder pitch-deck workshop with pizza during London VC Week — feedback round-robin between operators, GPs and angels. Genuinely high-signal, often oversubscribed.

The London Clojurians' long-running monthly dojo — collaborative pair-programming on a katas/problem, all levels welcome, REPLs at the ready. Among the most durable functional-programming communities in London; good for Clojure/ClojureScript engineers and for anyone curious about REPL-driven development.

Tuesday evening women-in-tech networking at The Owl and Monkey in South Kensington, with a dedicated elevator-pitch slot. A consistent format for women founders and operators across tech, fintech and AI.

Closed breakfast for VC finance leaders during London VC Week — fund accounting, NAV, and portfolio reporting tooling under discussion. Application required.

A pre-VC-Week working breakfast for partners and principals on actually using AI tools inside the firm — sourcing, diligence, portfolio support. Hands-on, not a panel; application required.

NXT BLD celebrates ten years as the UK's leading architecture/construction tech conference at the QEII Centre May 13-14. Day 1 (NXT BLD) covers workflow advances, AI, open data, digital fabrication, visualisation, scripting, robotics, generative design and XR; Day 2 (NXT DEV) goes deeper into thought leadership and hard questions. Speakers include Francisco Iorio (Augmenta CEO), Lucas Epp (StructureCraft/Branch3D), and Andrew Krippner (Hvakr CEO). The definitive UK event for proptech and construction tech.

The UK's largest free-to-attend gathering for IT service management, service desk and MSP professionals lands at ExCeL May 13-14. 3,000+ visitors, 80+ exhibitors (Hornbill, ServiceNow, TOPdesk, HaloITSM, ManageEngine), and 60+ keynote and seminar sessions. Co-located with the MSP Show — both accessible on a single free pass.

The Investor Mixer is the official investor-side networking event of London VC Week — partners, principals and angels in one room. Cross-listed alongside the Founder Mixer.

Working session on governance frameworks for voice data — what consent, retention and access control look like for voice-AI products that are now shipping at scale. Hosted at Newspeak House.

five degrees runs a curated founder showcase during London VC Week — five fintech-adjacent founders pitching to a senior banking and VC room. Drinks, demos, structured Q&A.

Small-format evening networking at Be At One Shoreditch for founders, startup execs and investors — capped at roughly 30 attendees with a structured 30-minute meet-and-greet at 6pm. Useful quiet pre-summer slot for early-stage conversations.

LOPUG is London's platform-engineering community — infra/platform teams comparing notes on internal developer platforms, golden paths, Backstage, service catalogs, and Kubernetes tenancy. Talks plus open Q&A. A good mid-week slot for platform engineers, SREs and engineering managers during DevOpsCon/MLcon week.

Intelligence Squared hosts an evening at King's Place with journalist Jon Sopel and IBM's Dimple Ahluwalia on how cybersecurity has moved from a technical function to a core economic force. A sharp 90 minutes on the real-world stakes of digital infrastructure as cybercrime approaches $10.5 trillion annually.

AI Security Summit London — a one-day deep dive into the security challenges of frontier AI systems. Strong technical lineup spanning red-teaming, agent guardrails and enterprise deployment risk.

The Allocators' Evening is the LP / family office networking event of London VC Week — explicitly invite-screened to keep the room senior. Strong for European fund managers raising or relationship-building.

Two talks that cut through the noise on what agentic AI actually means for how we build software. Robert Werner (Co-Founder & CTO, Leapter) opens with The Validation Gap — AI is generating code faster than anyone can review it, and hope is not a strategy; he shares experiments and innovations in making verification keep pace with generation. Sal Kimmich (Security Architect, Gadfly AI) follows with Narrative Engineering — arguing that LLMs are narrative generators, not search engines, and that the engineering discipline to match barely exists yet. Hosted at AutogenAI in King’s Cross, sponsored by Leapter and AutogenAI.

Europe's largest dedicated VC summit returns to the Guildhall — the London VC Network convenes 60 family offices, 600 investors and 800 innovators for a day of AI-era investment programming, family office matchmaking, and late-stage deal conversations. Early-bird tickets already sold out. The premier investor-dense room of the month.

Frontier Fusion at Somerset House brings together the AI and on-chain crowds — Crusoe, Polkadot Foundation and others on what happens when generative AI meets verifiable compute. One of the hotter London VC Week side events.

The Official After Party closes London Venture Capital Week 2026 — the Friday-night room every founder, GP and operator who came in for the week ends up at.

Saturday hack day for community organisers and engineers building open-source tooling for communities — member directories, RSVP systems, Discord/Slack bridges, event infra. Bring a project or join one. Food provided. A rare focused day on the unsexy plumbing that actually holds communities together.